Department of Physics & Astronomy 
State University of New York at Stony Brook 
Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 
Telephone: (631) 632-8100 
FAX (631) 632-8176
 
Physics & Astronomy Weekly Bulletin
Week of May 5 - May 9, 2008
 
Monday, May 5 
Time: 11:30 a.m. 
Room: D-122 
Grad. Physics
Particle Physics Seminar 
Robert McCarthy, SBU
"An Attempt to Construct a Classical Microscopic Model of the Electron
which Underlies Quantum Mechanics"
Monday, May 5
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Room: C-133 
Grad. Physics
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Paul Romatschke
"A gravity-dual model of Heavy Ion Collisions"
Monday, May 5 
 
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Tuesday, May 6 
Time: 4:15 p.m. 
Room: P-137 
Harriman Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 
Laszlo Mihaly, SBU
Graduate Achievement Awards
Kirean Boyle
"Measurements of the Double Helicity Asymmetry in Pion Production in Proton
Collisions at \sqrt s = 200 GeV and the Resulting Constraints on the Polarized Gluon
Distribution in the Proton"
Jeremy Holt
"Realistic Nuclear Interactions with Brown-Rho Scaling Medium Modifications"
 
Coffee and Tea will be available at 3:45
Wednesday, May 7 
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, May 7 
 
Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled
Wednesday, May 7

Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar
Nothing Scheduled
Thursday, May 8
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Room: YITP Common Room MT6-125
YITP Seminar
Sergio Benvenuti, Princeton University
"N=8 superconformal field theories and M2 branes"

Thursday, May 8
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Room: 412
Chemistry Building
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
Frank Brown, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
"Single Molecules: Dynamics and Statistics"
Friday, May 9
Time: 12:50 p.m.
Room: 450 ESS
Astronomy Journal Club
Glenna Dunn
"TBA"
Friday, May 9 
Time: 1:30 p.m. 
Room: B-131 
Grad. Physics
Solid State Seminar 
Matt Dawber, SBU
"Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices"
Friday, May 9
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Room: 001 ESS
The Worlds of Physics
Paul Grannis, SBU
"Particle Accelerators: Herding and Hurrying Cats"
Friday, May 9 

Advanced Graduate Seminar 
Nothing Scheduled